Melinda Rabb
Associate Professor of English
Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 332
Phone: (401) 863-3750
Courses '07-'08
Sem I:
ENGL 0600A - S01: Literature and Print Culture
ENGL 1510A - S01: Jane Austen and Her Predecessors
Sem II:
ENGL 1310A - S01: "Firing the Canon": Early Modern Women Writers
ENGL 1560U - S01: Radicals and Conservatives: the later 18th Century
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Degrees
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979
M.A. University of Chicago, 1971
B.A. Radcliffe College, 1969, magna cum laude
Research Interests
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, satire, women's writing.
Professional Accomplishments
Rabb served as assistant
professor of Humanities at MIT before coming to Brown in 1981. In
addition to publishing numerous chapters in collections and journal
articles on eighteenth-century British fiction and poetry, she has
edited Lucius: The First Christian King of England for The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century
Drama, ed. Douglas Canfield (2000) and a special issue
of Modern Language Studies titled Making and Rethinking
the Canon: The Eighteenth Century XCIII: 1 (1988). She
is currently completing a book titled The Secret History of
Satire, 1650-1740.

